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Peter Jackson

The director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy on his new World War I documentary, a labor of love that puts a human face on history

Your new film, They Shall Not Grow Old, uses technology to restore old footage from World War I. How is it different from other war documentaries? I’ve seen documentaries that use the same footage we do from the archives of the Imperial War Museum in England. But because the footage is so damaged, you’re seeing the soldiers through the fog of time. They’ve always been

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